PinnedDid Andrei Vasilevskiy Deserve the Conn Smythe Trophy?Did Andrei Vasilevskiy deserve the 2021 Conn Smythe Trophy? This is a conversation I seemed to have perpetually over Twitter and Reddit throughout the Stanley Cup Finals with mostly Canadiens fans, but also some other hockey fans who argued Kucherov or Point should’ve been the frontrunners. Now that the Stanley…Hockey4 min readHockey4 min read
PinnedPredictions for the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup FinalsThe NHL Stanley Cup Finals start later tomorrow, Monday, June 28th at 5:00 PM PST with the Montreal Canadiens facing off against the Tampa Bay Lightning. I am going to give my predictions for the final round of the playoffs. What a ride it has been this year. The Montreal…Hockey4 min readHockey4 min read
PinnedPredictions for Round 1 of the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup PlayoffsRound 1 of the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs starts later today, Saturday, May 15th at 4:15 PM PST with the №2 Washington Capitals facing off against the №3 Boston Bruins. I am going to give my predictions for the first round of the playoffs. Basic criteria for my selections…Hockey4 min readHockey4 min read
Jun 14, 2021Predictions for Round 3 of the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup PlayoffsRound 3 of the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs started earlier today with the №2 Tampa Bay Lightning facing off against the №3 New York Islanders. I am going to give my predictions for the third round of the playoffs. Basic criteria for my selections: I analyzed the Pythagorean Theorem…Hockey3 min readHockey3 min read
May 29, 2021Predictions for Round 2 of the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup PlayoffsRound 2 of the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs starts later today, Saturday, May 29th at 5 PM PST with the №3 Boston Bruins facing off against the №4 New York Islanders. Round 1 isn’t quite finished — game six of the the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens takes…Hockey4 min readHockey4 min read
May 22, 2021Why the Jets Are WeirdThe Winnipeg Jets are weird. On April 20, I published an article about the luckiest and unluckiest teams in the NHL at that point of the season. I used PDO and Goals Differential Above Expected as statistics to demonstrate which teams were luckier or unluckier than others. The Jets were…NHL3 min readNHL3 min read
Apr 20, 2021What are the Luckiest and Unluckiest Teams in the NHL Right Now?After my recent journey to build a better model to estimate an NHL team’s winning percentage came up short, I was stumped. Hockey analytics has lagged behind the analytic booms in other sports partially because it is more difficult to actually analyze from an unbiased perspective, and failing to build…Sports3 min readSports3 min read
Apr 16, 2021Can We Build a Better Model to Evaluate NHL Teams than the Pythagorean Theorem?This past March, I published an article on All Sportlytics using the Pythagorean Theorem to analyze how teams this season had been performing. …Sports5 min readSports5 min read
